A fortuitous moment waiting to collect a Chinese takeaway led to the discovery of ‘The World of Interiors’, the only magazine I have ever bought on a regular basis. From this first copy, found discarded on the counter and idly picked up, I recognised immediately that I was among friends.
Interiors have always been important to me. I use my room as an ever changing canvas – my real friends always surprised at the sheer proliferation of objects and textures placed and draped over every spare inch. As one noted – ‘there are more pictures than wall!’
But how to sum up this excellent publication?…
On their website is a page called ‘Passion Place’ where writers and creatives have shared a space, place, building or room that awakens their emotions. Here’s one writer’s pick of an old Soho restaurant: ‘The seats are too small, it’s not comfortable and it’s quite dark; but because it’s been there for so long, it can be whatever it wants’ That’s the spirit of many of the best places featured.
I have many of my own ‘Passion Places’ listed here in ‘A Letter from England’. In a sense, that’s how I see this site, a ‘passion place’.
